Rajinikanth’s Kaala, unlike Kabali, will be a proper gangster movie!
Superstar Rajinikanth has two releases next year – 2.0 and Kaala. Both the films are in complete contrast to each other. While 2.0 is an ambitious sci-fi film, Kaala is a gangster flick based in the Mumbai underworld. The latter marks his reunion with director Pa Ranjith after Kabali, which got released in July last year.
Kabali was released amidst humongous expectations after the highly impressive teaser and other promos. ‘Rajinikanth playing a Malayasian don’ itself was enough to excite his scores of fans worldwide. While everyone expected a Baasha like gangster film, Kabali eventually turned out to be more of an emotional tale of a husband’s search for his long lost wife.
Though Kabali showcased the brilliant actor within Rajinikanth, that was not what his fans were looking forward to. They were disappointed in not seeing enough mass moments to celebrate the ‘star’ that Rajinikanth is. When news broke that Pa Ranjith is teaming up with the superstar again, many had apprehensions whether this one would also turn out like Kabali.
But the makers assure that Kaala, unlike Kabali is a proper gangster flick. Rajinikanth plays a don who heads the Tamil community in Dharavi. Kaala is about a guy from Tirunelveli, who runs away in his childhood to Mumbai to become a powerful don living in the slums.
The movie has a strong supporting cast which includes several noted North Indian actors. Bollywood actress Huma Qureshi is playing the female lead, but she is not paired opposite Rajinikanth. Multiple national award winner Nana Patekar is playing a pivotal part in the film. Jackie Shroff, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Sayaji Shinde, Sakshi Agarwal, Samuthirakani, Sukanya, Ramesh Thilak and Sampath Raj are also part of the movie.
Rajinikanth’s son-in-law and actor Dhanush is producing Kaala under his banner Wunderbar Films. Most of the technical crew of Kabali have been retained for Kaala, with only Sreekar Prasad, the veteran, replacing Praveen KL as the editor. Pa Ranjith’s regular Santhosh Narayanan is handling the music department.
The makers are planning to dub and release the movie in Hindi and Telugu as well. Kaala is scheduled to release on April 14 next year.
